Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother. A black and white photograph of a Depression era mother. She gazes off into the distance while her children flank her. A baby rests on her lap.

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Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother or “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California," 1936, print from nitrate negative.

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, 2017762891.